First Focus on Children provides on-the-record context, analysis and, of course, quotes about the issues pressing hardest on our nation’s children. We also offer Reporter Roundtables, newsletters and media briefs.
The Kansas City Star, by Bruce Lesley … Kansas City leaders are right to back investments that make quality...
The Seattle Times, by Bruce Lesley … The Times rightly backs increased investments in preschool [“Editorial: Preschool trickles up,”...
New York Times, by Robert Pear … The refusal by about half the states to expandMedicaid will leave millions of...
San Diego Union Tribune, by Bruce Lesley … In response to “San Diego leaders urge funding for early childhood...
First Coast News, by Ken Amaro … Meri West loves her North Jacksonville home and would hate to lose it. “I...
Public News Service … According to Wendy Cervantes, vice president, immigration and child rights policy, First Focus Campaign for...
Cleveland Plain Dealer, by Bruce Lesley … Brent Larkin (“Ohio can and should beef up funding for early childhood education,”...
Desert News, by Mark Shurtleff and Bruce Lesley … Why are advocates for kids encouraged that immigration reform has...
Voxxi, by Griselda Nevarez … Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is proposing an amendment that would allow undocumented children—or “little...
